"On the set, we could tell when it was a Jennifer Aniston day because the Entertainment Tonight cameras would suddenly appear," says Scott Winant, director of next winter's romantic comedy `Til There Was You, which Aniston filmed on her days off from Friends last year. Forget about a Jennifer Aniston day. It has been a Jennifer Aniston year. In her third season as ditsy Rachel Green, Aniston, 27, continues to grind beans and collect kudos as the sexiest Friend. Thousands of women have paid her homage by hairdressers give them blown-out, layered Rachel do she recently told INSTYLE "I'm sick of it,". With every hair in place, though, Aniston is making a smooth move from the little screen to the big picture. While Friends pals David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc fared so-so in feature flippy turn as Aniston's a frustrated wife in director Edward Burns's
She's the One garnered good notices. And all the glitter has not gone to her head, claims Marlo Thomas, who plays her sitcom mother. "Jennifer is adorable," she says. "Sweet and giving." It can't hurt that Aniston has lived through the ups and downs of the biz. Her father, John, plays Victor Kiriakis on NBC's Days of Our Lives, mom Nancy was a model, and her godfather was Telly Savalas. Aniston, who has spent her free time this year with actor Tate Donovan, seems to have the legs for the long haul after the blow-dryers are finally turned off. "Eventually," says Winant, "the focus will become about her talent and not her hair.
And that's where it should be."